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DRC: China Wants to Dominate the Global Electric Vehicle Market – and It’s Using Congolese Minerals to Do It
Oct 29, 2021
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James Griffiths and Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail
The backlash against the Chinese miners has been rising this year, even as they face another threat: a decision by the DRC government to review…
Climate Change: Dutch PM Supports Canada's Plan to Establish NATO Centre for Climate Security
Oct 29, 2021
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Mia Rabson, Canadian Press
The Netherlands threw its support behind a new NATO centre of excellence to study the security threats posed by climate change during Prime Minister Justin…
USA: International Consultant to Develop a Policy Paper on the Linkages Between Gender, Conflict, and Climate Change in the Arab States Region
Oct 28, 2021
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UN Women
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…
USA: International Consultant to Develop a Policy Paper on the Linkages Between Gender, Conflict, and Climate Change in the Arab States Region
Oct 28, 2021
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UN Women
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…
Afghanistan: Exclusive - 'Women Encouraged to Work in Pine Nut Industry': Taliban to WION
Oct 28, 2021
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Anas Mallick, WION
Pine nuts, popularly known as Afghanistan's 'export gold', are one of the major sources of support for the country's economy, especially at a time like this…
Sierra Leone: From ECOWAS to New York: Beny Steinmetz Diamonds on Trial in Three Jurisdictions
Oct 27, 2021
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Africa Intelligence
People living close to the Koidu diamond mine in Sierra Leone fear the dismissal of a domestic court case against Beny Steinmetz's company Octea, which…
Climate Change and Nuclear War: Existential Threats on a “Split Screen”
Oct 26, 2021
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Shruti Samala
In international relations today, we face two truly existential threats in climate change and in nuclear warAt this critical juncture —when “the risk of conflict…
Can COP26 Become a Turning Point for Gender Responsive Climate Action?
Oct 26, 2021
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Mohammad Naciri, Samantha Hung, Sun-Ah Kim
Any meaningful international effort to address climate change must have women and girls at its center.
Iraq: Iraq Opts for Clean Energy in Ambitious Energy Reform Program
Oct 26, 2021
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Salam Zidane, Al-Monitor
Iraq is signing contracts with international companies to produce clean energy in a bid to curb its rising pollution curve.
Afghanistan: Climate Now a Worse Crisis Than War for Afghanistan’s Farmers
Oct 26, 2021
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Al Jazeera
Drought stalks the parched fields around Afghanistan’s remote district of Bala Murghab, where the climate crisis is proving a deadlier foe than the country’s recent…
Can COP26 Become a Turning Point for Gender Responsive Climate Action?
Oct 26, 2021
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Mohammad Naciri, Samantha Hung, and Sun-Ah Kim
In a recent United Nations poll of young people in South Asia, 78 percent said that climate change has impacted their studies. More girls reported…
Afghanistan: How Turmoil in Afghanistan Has Impacted Agriculture — a Vital Part of Its Livelihood
Oct 25, 2021
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Peter Kenyon, NPR
Afghanistan is facing crisis on multiple fronts as borders are closed, farmers in the country are facing a drought and the economy is in free-fall.
Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Population Faces Extreme Hunger as Collapsing Economy, Drought and Conflict Hamper Access to Food
Oct 25, 2021
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Janice Dickson, Globe and Mail
More than half of Afghanistan’s population – 22.8 million people – will face extreme hunger over the winter months as the country plunges deeper into…
Gendering Just Transition
Oct 22, 2021
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Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
As policymakers across the world look to shift their power sources away from coal, they must keep in mind the gendered impacts of their energy…
Ghana: Exclusion of Women in Peacebuilding Threat to Development
Oct 22, 2021
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Prince Acquah
The Executive Secretary of the National Peace Council (NPC), Mr George Amoh, has stated that the exclusion of women in peace building and security issues…
Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Land-Filling on Disputed Reef in Spratlys, Imagery Shows
Oct 22, 2021
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Radio Free Asia
Vietnam appears to be doing new construction and land-filling on a remote reef it occupies in the disputed South China Sea, commercial satellite imagery shows.…
USA: DHS Releases First Ever Strategic Framework for Addressing Climate Change
Oct 22, 2021
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Kylie Bielby, Homeland Security Today
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its first Strategic Framework for Addressing Climate Change to govern the Department’s efforts to combat the climate…
How Gender Matters in the Climate Fight
Oct 22, 2021
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Shia Kapos
When it comes to fighting climate change, it turns out gender matters.
Ahead of a major United Nations climate conference that begins later this month, a new…
How Efforts to Combat Climate Change Created New Security Challenges in the Arctic
Oct 21, 2021
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Andrew Latham
In a little over a week, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold their annual meeting, dubbed COP26,…
Register Now for the Geneva Peace Week 2021
Oct 21, 2021
Geneva Peace Week (GPW) is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar, and the flagship event of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This year,…
Syria: Syria Executes 24 People for Setting Wildfires, Calling It ‘Terrorism’
Oct 21, 2021
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Ben Hubbard, New York Times
The Syrian government has executed 24 people and sentenced 11 others to life in prison with hard labor for lighting wildfires that burned across the…
Climate Change: Climate Change Poses a Widening Threat to National Security
Oct 21, 2021
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Christopher Flavelle, Julian E. Barnes, Eileen Sullivan, and Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times
Worsening conflict within and between nations. Increased dislocation and migration as people flee climate-fueled instability. Heightened military tension and uncertainty. Financial hazards. The Biden administration…
Liberia: How FDA Allows a Foreign Family to Hoard Forests and Hurts Communities
Oct 21, 2021
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William Harmon and Varney Kamara
In 2018, the Bondi Mandingo Authorized Community Forest signed a logging agreement with Indo Africa Plantation Limited. The community agreed with the company to log in…
Climate Change: DOD Analysis Highlights Geostrategic Risks of Climate Change
Oct 21, 2021
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US Department of Defense
The Defense Department released an unclassified version of the Defense Climate Risk Analysis report today. As the global and cross-cutting consequences of climate change increase…
South Sudan: Gender Equality and Gender-Based Violence Officer
Oct 20, 2021
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International Organization for Migration
IOM in South Sudan has a broad range of programming centered around three broad areas: humanitarian coordination and support; humanitarian response and resilience; and peacebuilding,…
Afghanistan: Taliban Promise Cash, Land to Families of Suicide Bombers Who Attacked US and Afghan Soldiers
Oct 20, 2021
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Sarakshi Rai, The Hill
The Taliban have promised relatives of suicide bombers who attacked U.S. and Afghan soldiers land and cash reward, The Associated Press reports. Interior Ministry spokesman Saeed Khosty tweeted…
What an Irrigation Project Reveals about Farmer-Herder Conflict in Northern Nigeria
Oct 20, 2021
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Daniel Adeoluwa Adeniyi
Clashes between herders and local farmers in several communities in Nigeria have increased in recent years. The conflict is impacting the economy negatively. Nigeria loses almost US$14…
Call for Consultants: Gender Guidance for WASH Projects at WaterAid
Oct 20, 2021
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WaterAid
WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid…
Pakistan: Senior Research Officer (Gender and Social Inclusion)
Oct 20, 2021
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International Water Management Institute
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (www.iwmi.org) is looking for a dynamic, self-motivated individual to join as a Senior Research Officer (Gender and Social Inclusion),…
Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Ethiopia Preps for Third Filling as Nile Dam Diplomacy Stalls
Oct 20, 2021
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Mohamed Saied, Al-Monitor
As negotiations remain stalled over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia is beginning to make preparations for the third-stage filling of its mega hydroelectric dam on the…